Margalit Cutler

1 week ago | grubstreet.com | Zach Schiffman |Margalit Cutler

For the actor and author Jeffery Self, working on his memoir, Self Sabotage, while shooting a new movie provided the right opportunity for multitasking. “It felt glamorous — editing my book on set,” he says. “Unless I make it a performance, I won’t get the work done.” Now, that film, the paranoid thriller Drop, is also out.

1 week ago | grubstreet.com | Zach Schiffman |Margalit Cutler

For the actor and author Jefferey Self, working on his memoir, Self Sabotage, while shooting a new movie provided the right opportunity for multitasking. “It felt glamorous — editing my book on set,” he says. “Unless I make it a performance, I won’t get the work done.” Now, that film, the paranoid thriller Drop, is also out.

1 month ago | grubstreet.com | Rima Parikh |Margalit Cutler

In the early 2000s, Monica Lewinsky retreated into private life — at least to the extent it was possible. In the decade-ish since re-entering the public eye, she’s been active as an anti-bullying advocate and public speaker as a means of exerting agency over the narrative that defined part of her life. Reclaiming With Monica Lewinsky, her new podcast from Wondery Media, explores public shame, with early guests like Olivia Munn and her close friend of over two decades, Alan Cumming.

2 months ago | grubstreet.com | Paula Aceves |Margalit Cutler

Back home in Washington, D.C., The New Yorker writer Kyle Chayka and his wife, Jess, cook “constantly and elaborately,” he says. (Their home is conveniently sandwiched between two farmers’ markets.) This week, though, Chayka spent exactly zero time there.

Nov 22, 2024 | grubstreet.com | Zach Schiffman |Margalit Cutler

To his fans, Vikas Khanna is a judge on MasterChef India and the owner of the acclaimed, reservation-scant Bungalow, which opened in the East Village this past March. But in reality, he’s cooked in New York’s kitchens since the early 2000s. Khanna runs Bungalow assiduously, staying up until the middle of the night, every night, to clean up. When he heads to India next month to shoot a new season of MasterChef, it’ll be the longest he’s been away from the restaurant since it opened.